BT Cyber Threat Protect.

For many years I have used Kaspersky Total/Premium for internet security and I still consider Kaspersky to be very good but I am fully aware  of the theoretical links to the Russian State which is why I considered using Norton instead a few years ago but there were things about Norton that I did mot like so I returned to the Kaspersky products that I had already paid for in advance..

https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/security/f/4733444...

Many years ago, (in online deals), I bought a number of years of  Kaspersky Total/Premium in advance at a very good prices so I simply stacked them up in my Kaspersky Account for later use and I simply used them one by one as they expired but the last one ends in next year, in February 2027, which leaves me with a dilemma.

Since I am against the war in Ukraine; I want to avoid putting any "new funds" into Russia so I can now simply use Windows Defender on the Windows PC's, free AV on the Android Phones and nothing on the IPad and iPhones which would probably be good enough or I can choose an alternative AV Package.

The choice is now complicated because as a BT Customer I can get BT Cyber Threat Protect for free which is I understand it Norton by another name and I have not previously liked a number of things about Norton when I have tried it previous, (the worse being that on the Windows PC it removed the Windows Restore Points as it was installed which stopped the user from reverting to the day before Norton was installed in the PC and it then needed a Factory Reset to get rid of Norton.

Do uses of BT Cyber Threat Protect know if it acts in the same way ?

On a Windows PC does BT Cyber Threat Protect remove all of the Windows Restore Points as it is installed ?

Since it is free I will probably just use it on the Android Phones, (Google Pixel Pro and Samsung Galaxy), but I will need to thing think long and hard before it is installed onto a Windows PC.

Personally I wouldn't let Mcafee or Norton anywhere near my windows machines - they are horrible bloated products that can be near impossible to remove.

I stick with Windows Defender and don't surf dodgy websites.

I have used ESET Internet Security for many years And had no major issues, and if you do have they have UK tech support that are fairly good

In reply to a post by ian72:

I stick with Windows Defender and don't surf dodgy websites.

I agree, I dropped McAfee about 5 years ago as it was causing issues (In-process com object errors) with my Windows 11 devices.

Like you, I didn't like Norton when I tried it and for some time was using Kaspersky.
I dropped it 3 years ago, because of the Russian connection, and have used Bitdefender Total Security since. There are versions with more features but I have those covered with other services. It doesn't mess with Windows Restore, and is reasonably adaptable. Multi device licences are available through online retailers and it is fairly easy to add them to existing installations (unlike McAfee that I have on a business computer that I manage). The only real problem I have had with it was an automatically installed mail client extension which was difficult to remove and didn't work with my mail setup, but that has been resolved in recent versions.

In reply to a post by Bushy2025:

Like you, I didn't like Norton when I tried it and for some time was using Kaspersky.
I dropped it 3 years ago, because of the Russian connection, and have used Bitdefender Total Security since. There are versions with more features but I have those covered with other services. It doesn't mess with Windows Restore, and is reasonably adaptable. Multi device licences are available through online retailers and it is fairly easy to add them to existing installations (unlike McAfee that I have on a business computer that I manage). The only real problem I have had with it was an automatically installed mail client extension which was difficult to remove and didn't work with my mail setup, but that has been resolved in recent versions.

used to use bit defender many years back, the fw was very good at the time, but then they added bloat, & new gui which consumed more memory etc, causing slow downs, So i found ESET even on a 20year old pc with 2gb of ram it was very light on resources